Facebook revealed in its third quarter earnings report today that mobile ad revenue represented 49 percent of its $1.8 billion in overall advertising revenue. The news should reassure investors that had been worried about the monetization gap between mobile and desktop for companies like Facebook.

But Germany is more interested in punishing the whistleblower than in cracking down on illegal police wiretapping. After the leak was published, a Pirate Party spokesperson’s home was raided and computers confiscated as the police sought to uncover the identity of the leaker.

Twitter has been largely unaffected by the NSA?s efforts to siphon data from some of the Internet?s most influential companies, likely because most tweets sent by users are public, but nevertheless the soon-to-list company is working to encrypt its (private) Direct Messages (DM) feature and introduce other new forms of security ? according to sources cited by the New York Times.

Just in time for Halloween, the Washington Post has brought us a horror story about U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies reading massive amounts of private data directly off of the internal communications infrastructure of U.S. Internet giants Google and Yahoo.